The opportunity
The Storage Infrastructure team builds and operates the storage foundation behind OpenAI’s most demanding workloads. We work directly with research to design storage systems for rapidly evolving experiments, while also powering production at scale.
What you'll do
Build and operate storage services that underpin OpenAI’s research infrastructure
Develop object storage systems across cloud and in-house environments
Build systems for cross-region data movement, replication, and recovery
Design lifecycle management capabilities that keep data durable, available, and cost-effective
Evolve the federation layer that unifies multiple backend systems behind a simple interface
Improve performance, reliability, and operational excellence across the platform
What they're looking for
- Collaborate closely with researchers and infrastructure teams to support rapidly evolving workloads
- Have experience building or operating distributed systems in production
- Have worked on storage infrastructure, object stores, distributed: filesystems, or other data-intensive backend systems
- Enjoy owning infrastructure end to end, including debugging and long-term reliability improvements
